I just picked up my first Stingray (3 band eq, I'm loving it) a couple weeks ago. Up until recently I've been playing old school p-bass's using a 100W Marshall Plexi and a 4x10 bass cab. My tone leans to the Entwistle side of things.
I picked up a Stingray to help take my slap-pop technique to another level but the band I'm in at the moment is a hard rock based act where I use a lot of finger technique.
In the setting of the band I found out at the first practice I used it, the Stingray sounded too polished (modern sounding?) (I'm going to get flamed here, ugh!) with my rig. To me it sounded fantastic, nice and punchy compared to my p-bass's (of course it plays like butter). But in the context of the band I'm in now it sounds too spanky clean. If I cut the treble it gets too muddy.
Is there a p-bass type e.q. setting that will get me in the p-bass ball park for this band, or do you think it may be the strings I'm using or a combo of both?
It came with a new set of EB med's on it. I usually use Rotosound Swing Bass 66's. I might throw a set on there but the RS's tend to be pretty bight too, maybe not as chimey as the EB's? I would like to stay away from flatwounds as I'm also doing slap-pop (at home anyway...).
I picked up a Stingray to help take my slap-pop technique to another level but the band I'm in at the moment is a hard rock based act where I use a lot of finger technique.
In the setting of the band I found out at the first practice I used it, the Stingray sounded too polished (modern sounding?) (I'm going to get flamed here, ugh!) with my rig. To me it sounded fantastic, nice and punchy compared to my p-bass's (of course it plays like butter). But in the context of the band I'm in now it sounds too spanky clean. If I cut the treble it gets too muddy.
Is there a p-bass type e.q. setting that will get me in the p-bass ball park for this band, or do you think it may be the strings I'm using or a combo of both?
It came with a new set of EB med's on it. I usually use Rotosound Swing Bass 66's. I might throw a set on there but the RS's tend to be pretty bight too, maybe not as chimey as the EB's? I would like to stay away from flatwounds as I'm also doing slap-pop (at home anyway...).
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